On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > As a mentor, I have two comments: > > - When requesting a new mailing list, it is critical to clearly define the > focus and expected community that would use a list. In particular, showing > specific threads on other lists that would be better moved to the new list is > helpful to give others a detailed explanation of the kinds of things a new > list proposer would expect to see on the new list. > > Creating new email lists is simple technically, but should be approached with > caution in terms of the effects of splitting community energy. > > - I highly recommend that people view through the slides for the > well-respected "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People" set of > slides: > > https://sites.google.com/site/io/how-open-source-projects-survive-poisonous-people > > The talk is worth watching, but for those short on time the slides are worth > reading. In particular, the aspects about how communities of many different > kinds of people (the vast majority who are not poisonous, by the way!) can > effectively work together on public mailing lists. A key slide is pp 5, and > pp7 as a followup: > > "Attention and Focus > These are your scarcest resources > You must protect them"
The hour spent watching this will be worth hours in reclaimed time and productivity! Thanks, Dave > > - Shane
